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We are pleased to welcome the 18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education back to Canterbury after a twelve year absence.
This is a particularly interesting time for CS Education, with the renewed focus on Computing in Schools in the media in the USA and the political engagement in the UK around Eric Schmidt's intervention in his 2011 MacTaggart lecture and the Royal Society's 2012 "Shut down or restart?" report on the state of Computing education in UK schools. This interest is reflected in a focus among our keynote speakers, and in the presentations on Day 1 of the conference, when we particularly welcome our colleagues from secondary schools.
The conference this year spans the range of ACM SIGCSE activities from practical advice for teachers in the Tips & Techniques session through to papers, panels and posters presenting both practical and research results.
This year's keynote speakers are:
Professor Simon Peyton-Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Chair of the UK Computing at Schools Working Group who will talk about the work of the Group in promoting Real Computing in UK schools
Wing Commander Andy Green OBE MA RAF. His day job is as a UK Royal Air Force fighter pilot, but his hobby is being the fastest man on earth. He will talk about the educational programme constructed around his bid to become faster still.
Chris Wildsmith, Managing Director of Kinetic Solutions will talk about the continuation of formal learning beyond graduation and into the workplace.
We also have five Working Groups, a popular and unique aspect of the ITiCSE conference, who have been preparing their ground for some months now for a burst of activity starting on the Saturday before the conference proper, and who will report their progress during the conference.
The paper sessions this year will consist of 51 papers out of a total of 161 submitted, an acceptance rate of 32%, as well as 3 panels, 9 short presentations on Tips and Techniques and 41 posters from faculty and students.
As well as the formal presentations, ITiCSE provides an excellent opportunity to meet and learn from colleagues from across the world as well as to explore the ancient city of Canterbury and the surrounding countryside, not least with the traditional Tuesday afternoon excursions. The conference will finish with a dinner at the historic Dover Town Hall, dating back to 1203, when it was built as a hostel for pilgrims heading for the shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury cathedral.
Proceeding Downloads
Cybersecurity, women and minorities: findings and recommendations from a preliminary investigation
- Rose Shumba,
- Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher,
- Elizabeth Sweedyk,
- Carol Taylor,
- Guy Franklin,
- Claude Turner,
- Corrine Sande,
- Gbemi Acholonu,
- Rebecca Bace,
- Laura Hall
This paper presents the work done by the ACM ITiCSE, 2013 Conference Working Group (WG) on Cybersecurity, Women and Minorities: How to Succeed in the Career! The ITiCSE 2013 conference was held July 1-3, 2013, in Canterbury, United Kingdom. The overall ...
A fresh look at novice programmers' performance and their teachers' expectations
- Ian Utting,
- Allison Elliott Tew,
- Mike McCracken,
- Lynda Thomas,
- Dennis Bouvier,
- Roger Frye,
- James Paterson,
- Michael Caspersen,
- Yifat Ben-David Kolikant,
- Juha Sorva,
- Tadeusz Wilusz
This paper describes the results of an ITiCSE working group convened in 2013 to review and revisit the influential ITiCSE 2001 McCracken working group that reported [18] on novice programmers' ability to solve a specified programming problem. Like that ...
The Canterbury QuestionBank: building a repository of multiple-choice CS1 and CS2 questions
- Kate Sanders,
- Marzieh Ahmadzadeh,
- Tony Clear,
- Stephen H. Edwards,
- Mikey Goldweber,
- Chris Johnson,
- Raymond Lister,
- Robert McCartney,
- Elizabeth Patitsas,
- Jaime Spacco
In this paper, we report on an ITiCSE-13 Working Group that developed a set of 654 multiple-choice questions on CS1 and CS2 topics, the Canterbury QuestionBank. We describe the questions, the metadata we investigated, and some preliminary investigations ...
Requirements and design strategies for open source interactive computer science eBooks
- Ari Korhonen,
- Thomas Naps,
- Charles Boisvert,
- Pilu Crescenzi,
- Ville Karavirta,
- Linda Mannila,
- Bradley Miller,
- Briana Morrison,
- Susan H. Rodger,
- Rocky Ross,
- Clifford A. Shaffer
Online education supported by digital courseware will radically alter higher education in ways that we cannot predict. New technologies such as MOOCs and Khan Academy have generated interest in new models for knowledge delivery. The nature of Computer ...
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
---|---|---|---|
ITiCSE-WGR '17 | 16 | 8 | 50% |
ITiCSE '17 | 175 | 56 | 32% |
ITiCSE '16 | 147 | 56 | 38% |
ITiCSE '16 | 11 | 7 | 64% |
ITICSE-WGR '15 | 7 | 7 | 100% |
ITiCSE '15 | 124 | 54 | 44% |
ITiCSE '14 | 164 | 36 | 22% |
ITiCSE '13 | 161 | 51 | 32% |
ITiCSE -WGR '13 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
ITiCSE '09 | 205 | 66 | 32% |
ITiCSE '08 | 150 | 60 | 40% |
ITiCSE '07 | 210 | 62 | 30% |
ITiCSE '02 | 100 | 42 | 42% |
ITiCSE '01 | 139 | 43 | 31% |
Overall | 1,613 | 552 | 34% |